Amanda Knox may be headed for some lean times. The Seattle woman, who was convicted of killing her roommate in Italy, sentenced to prison, then acquitted, is apparently saddled with both disappointing book sales and high and rising legal fees. Italy’s top court recently ordered a lower court to reconsider its acquittal of Knox in […]
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Where have Seattle’s guerrilla artists gone? They once delighted the city with art, mysterious and illicit, that arrived overnight, jarring a routine landscape in the morning. The gifts came without permission or warning, and delivered wit without words. But post-9/11, the idea of someone leaving behind a big, anonymous, public sculpture causes understandable jitters. These […]
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As this paragraph is being written, my desk is the cleanest it’s been in been in years and the e-mail inbox is at a record low. By the time this posts on Sunday, my keycard will be turned in, the final deadline will have been made, and my nearly nine-year career under the globe will […]
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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox’s ex-boyfriend, says in an interview that his parents wanted him to implicate her to save himself but he refused. He told “Today” that Knox ” told me that she thinks that I’m a kind of hero, but I don’t […]
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The former Pearl Jam music video directorial team is premiering a documentary, Alive & Well, next week at the Seattle International Film Festival. Josh Taft and Cindy Gantz, who produced videos for “Even Flow” and “Alive,” spent years creating the documentary about seven people battling Huntington’s Disease, a neurodegenerative brain disorder that some describe as […]
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Our friendly orca tour-boat captain James Maya reported yesterday that J Pod, a 26-member killer whale family, is back in the region. “Finally,” Maya wrote in his email letter, “J Pod returned this morning after a long absence of over 70 days, and all of them are there! First it was two transients west of […]
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We here at seattlepi.com are pretty damn competitive, and the idea that the rest of the friggin’ nation cusses more than our city and state strikes us as just plain BS. The Seattle-based mobile-advertising firm Marchex reports that its data shows Washingtonians cuss the least in the nation. Hell, since they live here, they ought […]
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Seattle is a city of manners, right? After all, we’re the biggest city in the least foul-mouthed state. But that’s when it comes to humans. Dogs in Seattle are a different matter. According to the U.S. Postal Service, our dogs are downright abusive, with Seattle tying for the No. 2 city in the country for most […]
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Barnett Newman’s 1953 painting Onement VI “overwhelms and seduces the viewer with the totality of its sensual, cascading washes of vibrant blue coexisting with Newman’s vertical ‘Sign’ of the human presence, his iconic and revolutionary ‘zip,’” according to auction house Sotheby’s. Whether you think it’s a “portal to the sublime” or something akin to a […]
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It’s nice that Seattle inspires other cities to do their best. Take our public toilet fiasco, for instance. After Seattle paid $5 million for fancy public toilets that turned into dirty crime havens, other cities took note. In particular, Portland. “We really looked at Seattle as what not to do,” Portland city staffer Anna DiBenedetto […]
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